Get Involved
With the Friends of the Yee Fow Museum and the
Yee Fow Center for History, Culture, and Trade

Ordinary citizens can do an extraordinary
thing that will encourage Sacramento to utilize its Chinese heritage
and help to elevate Sacramento into a destination point worldwide.
Ordinary acts become extraordinary accomplishments when efforts
are joined in collaboration towards achieving public projects
such as the Friends of the Yee Fow Museum's endeavor to establish a
Yee Fow Center for History, Culture, and Trade
in the Railyards.

Get involved! Join this growing effort
to make the Yee Fow Center for History, Culture, and Trade a
reality. Your interest and comments are welcome at the Friends of the Yee Fow
Museum.

The story of Yee Fow has long been buried, the mission is
honorable and the journey is long. However, interested groups
and individual are committed to building upon this foundation
and collaborating on a Yee Fow Center for History, Culture, and Trade
towards becoming a reality and
a community jewel for all to discover and enjoy.

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The Friends of the Yee Fow Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit, volunteer-supported,
civic group sponsored by the City of Sacramento’s Gifts to Share program.
All contributions and in-kind services are tax deductible, administered by the City of Sacramento,
and go entirely to support the advocacy and development of a Yee Fow Center for History, Culture,
and Trade in the Railyard.

We thank you for your support of the
Gifts to Share/YFM program (Non-Profit Tax Exempt ID 94-2985546).

Here are a few comments in support for the Yee Fow Center for History, Culture, and Trade:

I never knew about China Slough, the railroad relationship
to it or the Chinese who lived in Sacramento. There is shamefully
not enough information of all the Chinese did in Sacramento.
They are such an important part. This is not good for this city.
Why are they always left out? - Paul Hyppolite

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Sacramento's Chinese pioneers were the only people to carve
out a place in The Railyards and called it "home."
Home was called Yee Fow, it is now buried under the Amtrak Depot
after being set afire as the Sacramento Fire Department watched,
ensuring that Yee Fow would burn but the rest of Sacramento would
be safe. The Sacramento Chinese pioneers that contributed so
much to what makes Northern California good were left homeless
and their belongs are buried, not only in history,
still beneath the ground. - Mitch Garbutt, Historian

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With so much being said of Sacramento's vision of an improved
quality of life and a new mixed use district in the heart of
Sacramento, commonly called The Railyard, we cannot incorporate
the concept "the past enriches the future" and create
a forward looking urban district that "stands on the shoulders"
of Sacramento's history by repeating the sins of the past. - Patricia
Arias

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We feel that anything but a Yee Fow Chinese Museum would be
historically irresponsible and obscure the contributions of the
only indigenous people of The Railyard, which is the Chinese.
It would be tantamount to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 2007.
Don't bury us again! - Paul Gee

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As native Sacramentan I am grateful to learn more about the
sweat and blood of Chinese laborers that contributed so much
to Sacramento. The contributions and sacrifices of the Chinese
laborers need to be exhibited foremost in the land of their home.
It all started right there in the railroad yards and nothing
else but a Chinese Museum should be the natural conclusion.-
Richard Bennett

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I think that a Chinese museum placed prominently in the railroad
redevelopment north of downtown will add to our culture here
in Sacramento. It would show our diversity and compassion for each
other, and for those who worked hard to build it what it is today.
Chinese American immigrants are a major part of Sacramento's history
Sacraemnto was built on their sacrafices. Showing respect for them
can makes us proud of who we are and give
hope to all that aspire to live the American dream. - Brian Noble

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Sacramento needs to contribute to the understanding of
the contributions of Sacramento's Chinese pioneers. The communities
created by and for Chinese immigrants are testimony to the legacy of racial
and cultural diversity, building the foundation of daily life,
the economy and the prosperity of California. Local leaders and
policy makers should build a Chinese Museum to ensure the
respect and cultural memory the Chinese of Sacramento. - Mike Gutierrez

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It is right that we should recognize the Chinese America role
in the history of Sacramento in a meaningful manner, whether through
a Sacramento Chinese museum and/or an education center. Doing
so will recognize deeper roots to the Chinese American history
in Sacramento, enrich the educational learning opportunities
of our K-12 students, and enhance the heritage of Sacramento
as a whole. - Juan Carrillo, Director Emeritus, California Art Council

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Many times the only opinions, concerns, and objectives heard
in this country are those who come from people in positions of
political and or financial power. We are now living in a time
where younger generations think of discrimination as an issue
of the past, if only that were true. It would be a disgrace to
hide and thereby rewrite the history of the rail yard. I am all
in favor of a Chinese Museum built in the rail yard, amongst
all the other proposed new developments for that land. I only
hope that those with the power to actually make the Yee Fow Museum
proposal a reality. - Karisa Wigington

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We need a Chinese museum to educate Sacramento of the Chinese
of Yee Fow and of their rich historical contributions to Sacramento.
Build the museum so that generations to come will understand
the personal sacrifices made by the Chinese in creating our Sacramento
history. - Jose Montoya, Professor Emeritus, CSUS

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Many people, especially the younger generation, are totally
unaware of the "Driving Out" of the Chinese Americans.
Many who enjoy the waterways of the delta do not know about the
Chinese building the levees at great sacrifice. Save Sacramento's
Chinatown history with a Yee Fow Museum! - Francisca E. Godinez, Ph.D.